Slavnostny Quotes & Sayings

The major problem for America is we're losing two wars. We're losing in Afghanistan, we're losing in Iraq. And there seems very little likelihood that we're going to increase the number of troops we have in either place to the point that we can prevail. — Michael Scheuer

Whether that is healthy or not to you, or healthy or not to anyone, or a doctor, is really of no concern to me. I don't feel alive unless I'm performing, and that's just the way I was born. — Lady G

it is when we don't believe we are enough for ourselves
that we start looking for people to drown in. — Upile Chisala

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight. — Tom Lantos

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears. — Tacitus

Of valid economics pre-dating the Power Age (steam and electricity), there remains not a vestige. Of valid economics pre-dating the intensive and extensive use of electricity there will soon exist only rags and tatters. We still have to thank Adam Smith for insisting 'Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production;' but the old form of the law of demand and supply is outmoded, since supply has become practically inexhaustible. — Harriet Boyd Hawes

People often think they would have made the noblest choice, but when they find themselves actually in such a situation, they discover matters aren't quite so simple. — Ann Leckie

It's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf! — Jean Webster

Creativity is the very source and the wonder of your experience. — Kenneth G. Mills

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women. — Kate Smith

If we can't feel into the heart of grief, we can't truly move on to experience hope and joy. We can't be present to what is now, and what is next, because we are bound by the loss and sorrow that holds us to the past. Grief has to flow. It has to be carried, not just by you, but by the others with you, by your community, until it transforms to the next rightful calling of your heart to action. — Sharon Weil

Prayer draws us near to our own souls. — Herman Melville